Augere Venture

What is Augere Venture?

Augere Venture is a private equity fund based in Somerset House, 37 Temple Street, Birmingham, B2 5DP, United Kingdom.

They focus on investing in sectors such as Software, IT (including TMT), Education, Business Solutions, Entertainment (encompassing Sports), IoT (alongside Wearables), Gaming (including eSports), Material Science, FoodTech, Healthcare (with Wellness), Life Science, Mobile, Consumer, and other innovative industries.

Augere Venture’s investment strategy encompasses providing equity investments with a minimum of 350,000 and a maximum of 380,000, aiming to target companies that present growth and development potentials, particularly in the technology space.

Their specialities include Management Buyouts/Leeverage Buyouts (MBO/LBO), Restructuring, Angel Investing, Later Stage Venture Capital, Seed Rounds, Early Stage Venture Capital, as well as Accelerator and Incubator programs. The firm operates both an accelerator program and an angel network to support the businesses it invests in.

Augere Venture offers what they call 'Smart Money,' meaning that in addition to financial investment, they provide strategic management advisory, market analysis, business development contacts, operational management aid, troubleshooting in crises, involved financial planning and budgeting, support in subsequent funding rounds, and transactional advice on mergers and acquisitions.

Augere Venture's ecosystem includes collaboration and synergy between transactional, market, industry-specific, and scientific resources. This means working within networks that might include experts, advisors, and research institutions to enhance innovation and growth for the companies they invest in.

The firm’s website also outlines the investment process, including deal sourcing, evaluation, value creation strategies, and investment criteria. They are heavily committed to operational excellence, financial management, and investment operations guided by substantial experience.

What they say:

We are a network of business angels.

What we look for: We invest in early-stage technology startups.